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Is anyone else sick of people having to justify the words they use to describe their ideas? It's one of the most toxic effects of IP.
by jMyles 11y ago
Is anyone else sick of people having to justify the words they use to describe their ideas? It's one of the most toxic effects of IP.
- tomc1985 11y agoNope. Perhaps: if it requires justification, it requires revision. I personally dislike 'Project Infinite' because the only thing I think of in context of dropbox and infinity is infinite storage, which this is not. It's misleading.
- Godel_unicode 11y agoHow else would you do it, though? If anyone could call their product whatever they wanted how would you know that your Apple iPad was actually an Apple iPad until you tried to use it? Look at the thriving counterfeit markets in China.
- jMyles 11y agoSo, first of all, you are talking about straight-up fraud. I don't think anybody will actually mistake Dropboxe for Dropbox. But yes, I think that in an information age society, we can surely make sense of the myriad of product names and their varying level of veracity without needing to wonder beforehand whether a particular name will warrant the hammer of government intervention.
- Nadya 11y ago>I don't think anybody will actually mistake Dropboxe for Dropbox. Nearly all phishing attempts rely on users mistaking m with rn or not noticing an extra/similar/missing letter. eg Citibank vs Citlbank or Wellsfargo vs Wellsfarrgo. People make that mistake all the damn time - so I'm not sure how you can say with any certainty nobody will mistake Dropboxe with Dropbox.